Cradle Coast Region

27.5% of the resident workers in the Cradle Coast Region have qualifications, compared to 35.9% for Tasmania.

Education is an essential means of building the knowledge and skill levels of the labour force, which is a key factor in achieving future economic and social development.

The level of educational attainment for the Cradle Coast Region's resident workforce relates to a number of factors including:

The age structure of the resident workforce;

The professional or social ambitions of people to obtain qualifications (that is, to seek education and retraining);

The opportunities afforded to people to continue studying beyond compulsory schooling, and;

The knowledge and skill requirements of the local industries.

Qualification should be looked at in conjunction with Income, Occupation and Field of qualification for a clearer picture of the knowledge and skill level of Cradle Coast Region's local resident workers.

When comparing the Qualifications of local resident worker with local workers, Qualifications statistics indicates whether an economy draws on the skills offered by its own residents or on a different set of skills imported from elsewhere in the region.

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing, 2011 and 2016 Compiled and presented in economy.id by .id, the population experts.

Dominant groups

Analysis of the qualifications of the resident workers in the Cradle Coast Region in 2016 compared to Tasmania shows that there was a lower proportion of people holding formal qualifications (Bachelor or higher degree; Advanced Diploma or Diploma; or Vocational qualifications), and a higher proportion of people with no formal qualifications.

Overall, 27.5% of the resident workers held educational qualifications, and 40.8% had no qualifications, compared with 35.9% and 37.1% respectively for Tasmania.

The major differences between qualifications held by the resident workers of the Cradle Coast Region and Tasmania were:

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